Procrastinating on April 11, 2016
Over at Equitable Growth: Must-Reads:
- Yes, in some (many) ways, our macro debate has lost intellectual ground since the 1930s. Why do you ask? - Equitable Growth
- : Investing in social infrastructure as an anti-recession tool - Equitable Growth
- : The Middle-Class Squeeze
- : The Most Important 2016 Issue You Don’t Know About
- : Raj Chetty et al.'s Life Expectancy Study: It's Not Just What You Make, It's Where You Live
- : 101ism in Action: Minimum Wage Edition
Should Reads:
- : Reforming the Federal Reserve to Ensure Accountability, Transparency, and Good Governance
- : Fiscal policy explains the weak recovery: "We already have a simple and conventional story to explain the weak recovery..."
- : Innovation is overvalued. Maintenance often matters more: "Capitalism excels at innovation but is failing at maintenance, and for most lives it is maintenance that matters more..."
- : The case for more capital
- : Courtesans and Fishcakes: The Consuming Passions of Classical Athens
- : What Tools Does the Fed Have Left? Part 1: Negative Interest Rates | : Targeting Longer-Term Interest Rates | Helicopter Money
- : Sanctions for Offshore Havens, Transparency at Home
- : So Just How Much of an Overshoot on Inflation Will the Fed Tolerate?:
- : Busted: The Sad Data Manipulation of Prof Mark Perry
- “Liquidation” Cycles and the Great Depression
- : What is Wrong With the Parrott, Ranieri, Sperling, Zandi and Zigas Reform Proposal? Everything
- (1972): Comments on the Critics
- : Median CEO pay fell in 2015 to "only" $10.8 million
- : Declining Mobility and Restrictions on Land Use
- (1999): Thinking about the Liquidity Trap
- : Liquidity preference, loanable funds, and Niall Ferguson
- On the Proper Size of the Public Sector and the Level of Public Debt in the Twenty-First Century
And Over Here:
- Live from La Farine: Scott Lemieux sends us to Jonathan Chait on the unprofessional hagiography the New York Times and Jennifer Steinhauer are committing for Paul Ryan
- Comment of the Day: Howard: 101ism in Action
- Live from La Farine: This by Jennifer Steinhauer strikes me as unprofessional.
- Yes, in Some--Many--Ways Our Macro Debate has Lost Intellectual Ground since the 1930s. Why Do You Ask?Must-Read: Charles Moore: The Middle-Class Squeeze"
- Must-Read: David Dayen: The Most Important 2016 Issue You Don’t Know About
- Comment of the Day: Bloix: Sokrates as Mary Sue
- Live from La Farine: Larry Levitt: New Clinton Health ideas
- Must-Read: Jim Zarroli: Raj Chetty et al.'s Life Expectancy Study: It's Not Just What You Make, It's Where You Live
- Links for the Week of April 10, 2016
- Must-Read: Noah Smith waxes wroth about really lousy economics perpetrated by Alex Tabarrok, Mark Perry of the invariably-execrable American Enterprise Institute (sorry Norm Ornstein: you inhabit a really bad neighborhood), and a guy who puts things on the internet while remaining anonymous.
- The Sun Rises--But the Sun Also Sets...
- Monday Smackdown/Hoisted from 4 Yrs Ago/April Fools All Year/David Graeber Blogging: No, Silicon Valley Did Not and Does Not Partake of the Anarchist Utopian Nature. Why Did You Imagine It Did?
Might Like to Read:
- : The Messy, Very Human Politics of Bill Clinton’s Crime Bill: "The activists who denounce the bill now have much in common with the activists who supported it in 1994."
- : The Bernie/Hillary Twitter wars tell us basically nothing about the real primary
- : Why Are Voters Angry? It’s the 1099 Economy, Stupid
